Feast While You Can

by Mikaella Clements

“I’m glad you don’t feel the need to look like a man just ’cause you don’t like them, Nini.” “I’d love to see a man manage to look like her,”

Angelina remembered her own childhood promise to herself: as long as you think obsessively about the worst thing that could happen—your dad coming back and taking you away, Patrick dying—it makes it so unlikely that it won’t ever happen. So picture the worst thing, again and again.